Recaps

Claude’s expedition discovered a magical world inhabited by the blue-skinned Saxix Empire and attempted to negotiate with its army. When Lieutenant General Corsil Grandax refused to surrender or cooperate, Claude prepared to resolve the encounter by force.

• Claude assessed the world’s harsh conditions, detected magic, and ordered long-range monitoring after the blue-skinned inhabitants destroyed most of the Wizard’s Eyes.
• Claude’s commanders recommended activating a Time-Space Locking Shield and debated whether to deploy golems or the Knight Legion; Claude chose the Knight Legion.
• Claude broadcast a surrender demand and offered the Saxix Empire an exclusive year-long chance to exchange knowledge and resources.
• Corsil Grandax rejected Claude’s offer and demanded that the expedition leave, so Claude declared that they would settle the conflict by strength.

Claude’s forces defeated the Stirex and captured several for study, uncovering how their complex bodies let them cast magic despite fragile souls. The discovery suggested that integrating the Stirex system with arcane magic could make Claude a tower master.

• Claude observed the battle, ordered the spellcaster legions to use War Spells, and the Knight Legion defeated Lieutenant General Glandax’s forces, killing most of the Stirex and capturing several.
• Claude began examining a Stirex warrior and spellcaster, but the warrior’s Soul Dimension collapsed when the witch searched his mind.
• Claude’s scans revealed that Stirex bodies contained elaborate magical organs and systems that circulated and stored mana.
• The witch found that Stirex used martial-arts movements, incantations, or precise bodily control as spell models, compensating for their limited souls.
• Claude asked whether Stirex magic could help him become a tower master, and the witch said Mind-Body Dual Casting could transform Arcanists’ abilities and make his advancement nearly certain.

The rulers of three empires debated how the invaders had defeated their forces, and the scholar Kroll warned that the Arcane Empire could overwhelm their world. Kroll left to surrender, setting safeguards so the rulers could tell whether the Arcanist had kept his word or controlled him.

• Emperor Karak, Empress Selasi, and President Verek watched Lieutenant General Glandax's defeat and discussed how the invaders' runes had strengthened their spells.
• Verek summoned Kroll, who criticized the rulers for ignoring his warnings about civilizations beyond the stars.
• Kroll argued that the Arcane Empire could interfere with the World Will and that further invaders would follow once their world had been discovered.
• Kroll advised Verek and the other rulers to surrender, warning that they could not win against an interstellar civilization.
• Kroll revealed that he was already on his way to surrender and said his life card would reveal whether the Arcanist had betrayed him.
• Kroll promised to demand that the Arcanist not use him to sway the world and warned the rulers not to trust him if he appeared to do so.

After Kroll surrendered, the rulers of the Three Great Empires refused to give up and planned to unite their forces against Jean Claude, with General Luke Dragon Fist as their proposed commander. Jean Claude met Kroll and offered him a path to become a specially recruited Arcanist, leaving Kroll weighing the cost of serving the Empire.

• Verek declared war on Emperor Karak after Karak accused the Korak Empire of betrayal, and Empress Selasi stopped their argument before they agreed not to surrender.
• Empress Selasi proposed gathering the armies of the Three Great Empires and every kingdom, and the rulers voted overwhelmingly to appoint General Luke Dragon Fist as commander.
• Jean Claude met Kroll after confirming his surrender was genuine, and Kroll asked not to be used against his people.
• Jean Claude offered Kroll several possible futures and explained that his research talent qualified him for special recruitment as an Arcanist.
• Jean Claude told Kroll that special recruitment required an oath of loyalty and that the conquered plane’s research findings would belong to the Empire.

Claude promised Kroll a path to become an Arcanist and eventually buy back the plane, then conquered the Korak, Mage, and Saxix Empires. The surviving rulers gathered with General Dragon Fist, who revealed that a Dragon’s heart might solve their people’s weakness to soul magic.

• Claude offered Kroll the chance to become an Arcanist and later repurchase the plane, and they signed a Bloodline Contract after the witch warned that a Soul Contract could harm him.
• Claude gave Kroll a crystal ball to learn the Arcane Empire’s language, culture, and history, then said he would take him to the test in a month or two.
• Claude’s Knight and Golem Legions defeated the Korak Empire in one day, conquered the Mage Empire in two days, and advanced on the Saxix Empire.
• President Verek and some nobles escaped the Korak Empire’s defeat, while Empress Selasi fled after a Tier 8 Golem overcame her.
• Dragon Fist led Selasi, Karak, and the former Saxix emperor’s people to a huge stone and explained their ancestors’ vulnerability to the souls of Dragons and giants.
• Dragon Fist revealed that the stone was a Dragon’s heart and the key to saving the plane.

General Luke revealed that the Dragon Fist Family had restored the power of dragons by sacrificing warriors, then sent Karak, Verek, and Selasi to challenge Claude. Claude battled the three empowered former rulers, overwhelming Selasi and leaving her preparing to use the last resort General Luke had given her.

• General Luke explained the Dragon Fist Family's descent from the Dragon Slayer Royal Family and admitted that activating the Dragon Heart required the blood and energy of powerful warriors and mages.
• General Luke gave Karak, Verek, and Selasi scrolls and left as soldiers' blood flowed toward the Dragon Heart.
• Claude detected the rulers' energy, learned from the witch that their Dragon Soul power strengthened their souls, and teleported to confront them before the Law Resonance spell failed.
• Selasi empowered Karak and Verek and attacked Claude, but he countered her magic while his ancestral spirits fought the two emperors.
• Claude redirected Selasi's meteor spell back at her, then used Anti-Magic to nullify her spatial spells.
• Selasi realized her attacks could not overcome Claude and prepared to use the final gamble from General Luke's book.

Jean-Claude defeated Selasi and completed the conquest of the plane, then arranged to study and sell its knowledge while planning how to use his military merits. He later heard that Louis Sosa was struggling in a war against forces from several planes and offered to connect him with potential buyers for his slave soldiers.

• Karak and Verek's Dragon Souls strengthened Selasi, and the Planar Will raised her to Tier 9.
• Jean-Claude amplified his magic with his Arcane Spark and Aether Core, then imprisoned Selasi with the World Imprisonment Spell.
• Jean-Claude ordered the Knight Legion to suppress rebellions and the Golems to build an Astral Gate to the Empire.
• Jean-Claude reviewed the plane's resources and knowledge, studied its history and religion, and submitted a report offering its knowledge for sale after he finished studying it.
• Jean-Claude received compensation and military merits, and the witch recommended upgrading his laboratory to improve his chances of completing his Arcane Body.
• Louis Sosa told Jean-Claude that he was fighting a two-against-one war after seven Empires called in reinforcements, and Jean-Claude offered to connect him with possible buyers for his cannon fodder.

Fatima Fattash took charge of Koya Urilanu’s operation after death energy corrupted his soul and Soulfire. She proposed a dangerous procedure to remove the corruption and restore his Soulfire, but the team still had to address his injured soul.

• Doctor Ferrell told Fatima that Koya Urilanu’s soul and Soulfire had been corrupted by death energy during a failed experiment.
• Fatima demanded and received Director Sharma’s authorization to take over the operation, then teleported to Room 834B.
• Fatima presented the director’s order and had the hospital’s Tower Spirit remove Doctor Foster from the operating room.
• Fatima assessed Koya’s condition and proposed separating his soul from his Soulfire, cutting away the corrupted portion, and using part of his soul to restore the missing Soulfire.
• The doctors warned that Fatima’s plan carried a high risk of death, memory loss, and loss of Koya’s abilities as an Arcanist.
• A soul healer pointed out that even if the plan repaired Koya’s Soulfire, his injured soul would still need treatment.

Dr. Fattash led a dangerous soul surgery to remove Ulilanu’s corruption and rebuild his shattered soul. The operation restored his soul and reconnected it to his body, though its 98% compatibility fell short of Fatima’s own standards.

• Fatima ordered Dr. Carlson and the surgical team to remove the corrupted soul energy and rebuild Ulilanu’s soul, despite Dr. Foster’s objections.
• Fatima isolated the Soulfire, cut away its corruption, and helped Dr. Carlson’s team clear the remaining death energy before time ran out.
• When the final piece of death energy resisted, Fatima had Dr. Carlson awaken Ulilanu’s consciousness so he could help drive it out, then put him back to sleep.
• Fatima removed the isolation and used the Soulfire and Soul Energy from the hospital’s Aether Cores to restore Ulilanu’s soul while preserving his memories and former level.
• Fatima reconnected Ulilanu’s soul to his body after learning their compatibility was 98%, then left his postoperative care to the team.

Fatima attended a meeting where Director Sharma dismissed Doctor Foster after an investigation into her misconduct and malpractice. Fatima returned to her office and told Mary Lehman that she was still waiting for the Divination Department’s answer about her expedition.

• Doctor Clarence brought Fatima to a departmental meeting about her surgery.
• Director Sharma announced that Doctor Foster had been dismissed and her healer’s license suspended after the Medical Security Department investigated her violations.
• Doctor Foster attacked Fatima, but the hospital’s security system restrained her with Anti-Magic chains.
• Director Sharma apologized to Fatima and promised compensation from the government and the hospital.
• Fatima called Mary Lehman, who urged her to be less forgiving and asked about the expedition.
• Fatima told Mary that she was waiting for the Divination Department to respond before the weekend.

Dr. Foster’s arrest cost her husband William Benson his political and business prospects, and he told her he would divorce her. Fatima returned to her research base and began trying to stabilize her unconscious daughter Lana’s worsening condition.

• Dr. Foster demanded that William get her released, but he blamed her for angering Fatima and jeopardizing his company’s government contract and Jacob’s chance at an Elder’s seat.
• William told Dr. Foster he would divorce her, and she threatened to take him to court before their call ended.
• Medical Security Department officials apologized to Fatima and paid her compensation, but they could not answer her questions about her application to the Divination Department.
• Fatima returned to her Mage Tower on a research planet and spent four hours cleansing herself and the area of possible dangers.
• Fatima spoke to her unconscious daughter Lana, found that Lana’s condition had worsened by 0.5% since the previous day, and used her Arcane Merit to buy rare resources to try to stabilize her.

Fatima Fattash learned that the Divine Substance had stabilized Lana's Soulfire, then pursued coordinates from the Divination Department in search of more. She reached a seemingly lifeless plane under lethal conditions and began investigating.

• Fatima reviewed the data showing that the Divine Substance had nourished Lana's Soulfire and recalled how Hassan's corruption and death had infected their daughter.
• Fatima remembered how she became a Tier 3 Arcanist and developed a way to save Lana, but still needed an enormous amount of Divine Power.
• A prophet gave Fatima coordinates after she learned that saving Koa Ulilanu had raised her case's priority, and Fatima left for the plane despite Dean Sharma's objections.
• Fatima ordered Kadija to force the magic tower through the plane's barrier after the Planar Will failed to respond.
• Fatima found a blood-red sun, barren land, deadly conditions, no detectable Planar Will, and no signs of life, then ordered Kadija to expand the search.

Fatima captured a shadow beast and discovered that it contained Divine Power, then traced the creatures to a god’s corpse spreading Dark Divinity across the plane. Fearing the corpse could resurrect itself, she prepared a potion to incapacitate the corrupted creatures before claiming its Divinity.

• Fatima sent Golems to capture a Tier 6 shadow beast after five ordinary Golems failed, then Shadow Bane trapped it and brought it to her Mage Tower.
• Kadija’s scan revealed Divine Power in the beast, and Fatima examined its soul and extracted the energy.
• Fatima ordered Kadija to map the plane and found a Tier 7 creature surrounded by shadow beasts, with signs of Dark Divinity.
• Fatima inferred that a dead god’s corrupted power had spread across the plane and might be gathering souls and energy to create a new divine soul.
• Fatima sent extraction Golems to capture more beasts and spent over six months developing a potion that would put them to sleep before launching her attack.

Fatima and Kadija launched a carefully prepared assault on a corrupted divine corpse, weakening and capturing it with layered spells. Fatima severed its connection to the Planar Will and brought it back to the Mage Tower.

• After six months of preparation, Fatima ordered Kadija to begin the operation against the surviving shadow beasts and the divine corpse.
• Invisible Divine Artifacts spread knockout potion, and Golems captured the shadow beasts before the corpse could react.
• Fatima weakened the corrupted corpse with a powerful light spell and Kadija's Grudge Curse, then used a soul-targeting sound attack to knock it down.
• When the corpse devoured the Planar Will and drew on its power, Fatima merged with the Tower Spirit and devised a spell to separate them.
• Fatima's spell severed the corpse's connection to the Planar Will, allowing the Anti-Divination Chains to seal it and return it to the Mage Tower.

Fatima used Divine Power and the Old Ones Protocol to reconstruct Lana’s damaged soul and awaken her, but Lana’s Cthulhu Power resurfaced when she asked about her father. With Kadija having reported the situation to the Empire, Fatima prepared to speak with her daughter while facing the consequences of the discovery.

• Fatima activated the Old Ones Protocol and separated Lana’s corrupted soul layers, then used a divinely empowered soul as bait to extract most of the Cthulhu Power.
• Fatima and Kadija rebuilt Lana’s Soul Dimension and Soulfire, and Kadija found that the surgery had left Lana with unusually strong shadow affinity and weak resistance to light.
• Fatima revived Lana, who asked where her father was and said she had dreamed he became a monster and tried to eat her.
• Lana’s question triggered a godlike pressure and soul-piercing whispers, so Fatima knocked her unconscious and searched her for the undetectable Cthulhu Power.
• Fatima learned Kadija had already reported the incident to the Empire and decided to wake Lana for a proper conversation.

Fatima cared for Lana after her father’s death, then learned that Lana’s golden soul and unexplained Cthulhu Power had made her an important security concern. Old Merlin took Lana away for her own survival, and Fatima chose to follow him and pursue the strength needed to see her again.

• Fatima comforted Lana with homemade ice cream, a bath, dinner, and her favorite cartoon, then asked Kadija why government officials had not arrived.
• Tsunade and Wiz examined Lana, discovered her golden Soulfire and extraordinary talent, and used temporal magic to confirm that her power was [Whispers].
• Further scans found no source for Lana’s Cthulhu Power, so Tsunade explained that Lana would face secrecy, protection, and surveillance.
• Old Merlin arrived, declared Lana too important to leave behind, and said Fatima would need to reach Tier 12 to see her again.
• Old Merlin offered Fatima a choice between staying in the Empire or training with a Tier 14 soul master, and Fatima chose to go with him.
• Merlin erased information from Tsunade and Wiz’s memories to protect them, then disappeared with Fatima.

Ian and his allies faced a vastly larger force from Earth-333 in the Blank Realm, including a corrupted Odin and the Blood Demon God Watarris. Ian summoned an unstable army of Tier 10 clones and prepared to fight Watarris, who revealed that he had gained the Authority of Gluttony by devouring Beelzebub.

• Watarris and a red-haired, eyeless Odin variant charged into the Blank Realm, and Odin chose to confront his counterpart.
• Earth-333 sent more than twenty Tier 10 powerhouses, overwhelming Ian’s side with a ten-to-one numerical advantage.
• Ian ordered Ra to activate the Solar Warrior Project, summoning more than twenty unstable Tier 10 clones to serve as cannon fodder.
• Ian used Magic Sage Mode, a temporary Law Domain, and the Cosmic Will’s Grace to prepare his powers for battle.
• Ian attacked Watarris with purification magic, but Watarris swallowed the spell and explained that he had devoured Beelzebub to gain the Authority of Gluttony.
• Ian cast a succession of curses against Watarris, who eyed the Authorities within Ian as a feast.

Natasha and the team tracked Arishem and the Celestials to the Cult Dimension, where their powers began to drain and a powerful entity threatened to break through the realm’s barrier. The chapter ended with Natasha urging the team to hurry and looking to their captured leader for information.

• Natasha’s team arrived on a terraformed Earth and identified Asgardian magic, Blood Demon Dimension energy, and energy from Beelzebub’s Nine Hells in the environment.
• Natasha decided the team would locate Arishem and the Celestials rather than rescue local survivors, and Wong contacted Barton for their location.
• Barton directed them to an entrance on Kasha in the Omega Galaxy, and Sam scouted the Cult Dimension with an Invisible Raven before the team entered.
• Natasha led the team in defeating the robed guards and capturing their leader, while Tony detected a powerful entity trying to force its way through the Dimensional Barrier.
• Wong explained that the hostile dimension was draining the team’s powers, and Natasha urged them to move faster as she looked at the captured leader.

Natasha’s team attempted to rescue a captured Celestial from the Elytras cult while Wong and Banner defended their position against a demonic swarm. As Wong went to help the infiltrators, the swarm broke the Void barrier, forcing Banner to become Hulk and confront the invading demon.

• Natasha learned that the Elytras cult had summoned a Celestial, and the team discovered Arishem and other Celestials battling giant skeletons near the cult’s headquarters.
• Natasha sent herself, Tony, and Sam to rescue the hostage within a strict time limit while Banner and Wong stayed behind.
• A Tier 9 entity opened a rift in the Void and sent a vast swarm of blood-red demons through it, which Banner and Wong fought off.
• Natasha reported that the cult’s second-in-command had gained control over the captured Celestial and that her team was rapidly losing strength, so Wong entered the Mirror Dimension to help them.
• The demons destroyed the barrier and the enormous invader began entering the dimension, prompting Banner to unleash Hulk and charge at it.

Banner fought Galz-Tar after the demon entered the dimension, but Galz-Tar’s skill and regeneration gradually gave him the advantage. Hulk’s uncontrolled power surged as Galz-Tar killed the cult leader, leaving the demon to urgently confront the monster before its strength reached the level of a Demon God.

• Banner destroyed Galz-Tar’s body, but the demon reformed from his blood and recognized Banner as a human from another timeline.
• Banner and Galz-Tar exchanged attacks, and Galz-Tar used his experience to overcome Banner’s greater physical strength.
• After Galz-Tar knocked Banner down near the weakened Celestials, Banner let Hulk take control and launched a series of powerful attacks.
• Galz-Tar used Flame Magic to burn Hulk’s arm and knock him back, then broke the cult leader’s binding rings and devoured his soul.
• Galz-Tar realized Banner was struggling to control Hulk’s rage and attacked, fearing Hulk might grow as powerful as a Demon God.

Garz-Tal overwhelmed Hulk and pursued Natasha, Tony, Wong, and Sam through a collapsing realm and its portals. The group escaped him with Clint’s help and found themselves in a dark version of Asgard.

• Garz-Tal bound Hulk with black-flamed ropes and attacked Natasha’s group, but Banner used Energy Conversion to absorb his power while Sam shielded the others and Natasha teleported them away.
• Tony powered his armor with Shadow Dimension energy to block Garz-Tal’s attack, and Banner hurled the demon away before passing out from exhaustion.
• Wong opened a portal, but Garz-Tal tore it apart, scattering portals across the realm and forcing Natasha to lead the group through them while he pursued.
• Wong found a portal to another dimension, and Natasha sent Shadow Clones to distract Garz-Tal as the team escaped through it; Clint’s arrow struck Garz-Tal while they closed and sealed the portal.
• Wong identified their destination as Asgard, and Natasha led the group away when she sensed approaching life signs; Asgardian soldiers arrived at their former location.

Natasha, Wong, and Tony tried to escape Asgard’s dimensional lockdown by infiltrating the Bifrost, which drew power from the Dark Dimension. They were discovered by a murderous version of Thor, who attacked them.

• Wong discovered that Asgard’s linked realms had locked down space, preventing the team from teleporting away.
• Natasha proposed hijacking the Bifrost, and Wong and Tony agreed they could navigate its location and magic.
• Natasha learned that Odin had imprisoned Dormammu and made the Bifrost draw on the Dark Dimension’s power.
• Natasha disguised Tony and Wong as Asgardian soldiers, hid Sam and Banner in her pocket dimension, and led the team into the Bifrost facility.
• Thor trapped Natasha, Wong, and Tony in the control area and revealed that he had killed their counterparts before attacking Natasha with a rune-carved black ax.

Tony, Natasha, and Wong fought Thor, whose power escalated after the team’s illusion magic reminded him of Loki and his own past. Thor trapped them in a domain that forced them to confront the people who had died because of them, and Natasha realized Tony’s guilt was making him falter.

• Tony, Natasha, and Wong attacked Thor, but he overcame their defenses and struck at them with lightning and fear.
• Wong redirected Thor’s thrown ax through portals, and the team used illusions to survive Thor’s next lightning assault.
• Thor recognized the illusion magic as Loki’s and, enraged by memories of his brother, grew more violent; Natasha restrained him while Tony fired an Anti-Matter Energy Cannon and Wong banished him to the Dimension Sea.
• Thor returned through a rainbow, and Natasha summoned her Shadow Legion as Thor transported them into his Slaughter Authority domain, an endless Blood Pool beneath a crimson sun.
• The domain confronted Tony, Wong, and Natasha with people whose deaths they regretted, while Natasha saw that Tony’s guilt was overwhelming him.

Natasha fused with the Shadow Demon God Savon to overcome Thor’s attack and confront him with the truth about Odin and Frigga. After Thor turned against Heimdall, Natasha sensed Galz-Tar approaching and escaped with the team back to their timeline.

• Wong sent Tony away and layered magical protections around Natasha’s soul as she fused with Savon and consumed the domain with shadows.
• Natasha faced Thor, dodged his attacks, and argued that Odin had controlled him and was responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.
• Natasha revealed Frigga’s lingering protection around Thor’s soul, and Heimdall’s slow blink confirmed Thor’s suspicion that he was lying.
• Thor resolved not to let Frigga’s sacrifice be in vain and attacked Heimdall as Natasha moved toward the Bifrost.
• Natasha seized control of the Bifrost, reached Earth, and Wong opened a portal that let the team return to their timeline just before a hand was severed by the closing portal.

Ian fought Blood Demon God Watarris, using curses and adaptable spells to wound him before Watarris exploited the Law of Causality and Death Force to threaten Ian’s life. Death Lady paused time to offer a resurrection bargain, then let events resume as Ian faced the incoming blade with another way to survive still unseen.

• Ian inflicted uncontrollable hunger on Watarris with his Gluttony Curse, then used energy-converting spells to break Watarris’s shield and prevent his wounds from regenerating.
• Ian blasted Watarris’s body to ash, but Watarris protected his soul, formed a new body, and surrounded Ian with Blood Clones.
• Watarris used Ian’s curse and the Law of Causality to evade Ian’s Cosmic Perception, then attacked with a sword carrying Death Force.
• Ian used Death Foresight to glimpse his death, but his clones could not stop the sword from reaching him.
• Death Lady froze time, warned Ian that his soul would belong to her if she resurrected him, and resumed time after Ian said he had another way to survive.
• As the blade neared Ian’s skull, something unexpected happened.